AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
Room 132, Furman
Organizers:
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Renormalization And Scaling In Interface Problems.
  Gunduz Caginalp*, University of Pittsburgh
  (999-35-61)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coarsening Dynamics for the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation.
  Stephen J Watson*, ESAM, Northwestern University
  (999-35-263)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Triple junctions on the plane.
  Nicholas D. Alikakos*, University of North Texas
  (999-35-275)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quasi-stationary optical solitons with power law nonlinearity.
  Anjan Biswas*, Tennessee State University
  (999-78-130)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
Room 132, Furman
Organizers:
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Selfsimilar Blowup of Unstable Thin-film Equations.
  Mary C Pugh*, University of Toronto
  Dejan Slepcev, University of California Los Angeles
  (999-35-180)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Blow-up dynamics of long-wave unstable thin-film equations.
  Dejan Slepcev*, University of California Los Angeles
  (999-35-219)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The zero surface tension limit of 2D water waves.
  David M. Ambrose*, Courant Institute
  Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute
  (999-76-143)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Analytical Approach to the Ekman Boundary Layer Problem.
  Y. Giga, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
  K. Inui, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
  A. Mahalov, Arizona State University, Phoenix
  S. Matsui, Hokkaido Information University, Sapporo
  J. Saal*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
  (999-35-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A solution for the flow field within a torus.
  T. S. Morton*, Greenville, SC
  (999-76-21)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mechanics of Forced Elongation.
  Thomas C. Hagen*, The University of Memphis
  (999-35-124)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Application, III
Room 132, Furman
Organizers:
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Degenerate Parabolic Functional Differential Equation with Hysteresis.
  J Ildefonso Diaz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
  Lourdes Tello, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  (999-35-129)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Strong solutions to diffusive coagulation-fragmentation equations.
  Herbert Amann, University of Zurich
  Christoph Walker*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
  (999-35-150)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Symmetry properties of positive solutions of parabolic equations on $R^N$.
  Peter Polacik*, University of Minnesota
  (999-35-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Dirichlet problem for Hessian and curvature equations.
  Bo Guan*, Ohio State University and University of Tennessee
  (999-35-226)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Travelling wave solutions of nonlinear dispersive wave equations.
  Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis and University of Illinois at Chicago
  (999-35-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion.

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